This was extremely helpful my yearling hadn't ever been trimmed, and we ended up fighting about her feet. Guess I'm restarting this training on her feet.
It’ll work good. Just take your time and work slow. I’m glad you found the video helpful. Thanks for taking time to watch and comment. I appreciate it! Take care and do come again, please.
I’m in this for the entertainment and I’ll probably never use this knowledge. That being said I definitely learn a lot, a great memory and I do retain the information. Watching from Panama City Florida, USA. 🇺🇸🦅 Just a city boy from Miami.
Your method of gentleness, patience, consistency and small steps towards the goal is effective. I trained both of my Percherons, more than 2200 lbs. each, in a similar way, starting from the top to gain their trust till they let me rest my hands on any part of their legs for an extended period of time, before I asked them to give their feet. My son shoes them so it is important to me that he has it easy . We do not use a shoeing stock, but place the foot in a cradle, where the horse rests it any length of time. One of my horses had been handled roughly before I got him and it took me half a year of daily work to get him to the point of cooperation. But just like you demonstrate it, it certainly is worth the effort to have a trusting and cooperative animal instead of one that one would have to struggle with every time.
Yessir that’s right. I use stocks just because they’re easier for me. But I want the animals to be well enough trained to do it either way I choose. And yessir a willing animal is what a feller wants! Thanks for watching as always. I appreciate you
Having started many quarter horse colts to shoeing i Cannot disagree with anything you said, if a mule, or horse tries to kick and misses you consider it a warning, LOL :)
Yesssss! For sure…mules have really good aim. Mainly because they have really good peripheral vision. They can see just about all the way around behind themselves except about 4” in the middle of their backs. So they hit where they aim usually. Thanks again, for taking time to watch and comment! I surely appreciate it! Good to hear from you.
Yes ma’am that’s true. We’ve been working quiet a while. I bought her as a weanling and now she’s a yearling. It has taken me about that long to get to this point.
This was extremely helpful my yearling hadn't ever been trimmed, and we ended up fighting about her feet. Guess I'm restarting this training on her feet.
It’ll work good. Just take your time and work slow. I’m glad you found the video helpful. Thanks for taking time to watch and comment. I appreciate it! Take care and do come again, please.
Thanks Zach. Nice mules there and she is a smart one. I like how you handle her and so does she.
Yw! And thx for the kind words and for watching!
Thanks for sharing the video. You have a lot of good advice. Take care.
Yw buddy! I really appreciate the kind words and thx for watching
as a 25 year Farrier, mule owner. Zach you got it slow and easy and gentle. If a mule kicks and misses its because they wanted to.
Right on! And thank you for the kind words. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I’m in this for the entertainment and I’ll probably never use this knowledge. That being said I definitely learn a lot, a great memory and I do retain the information. Watching from Panama City Florida, USA. 🇺🇸🦅 Just a city boy from Miami.
Cool 😎 I use to live in south Alabama. So I’m familiar with PC. Thanks for watching and commenting! I really appreciate it
Your method of gentleness, patience, consistency and small steps towards the goal is effective. I trained both of my Percherons, more than 2200 lbs. each, in a similar way, starting from the top to gain their trust till they let me rest my hands on any part of their legs for an extended period of time, before I asked them to give their feet. My son shoes them so it is important to me that he has it easy . We do not use a shoeing stock, but place the foot in a cradle, where the horse rests it any length of time. One of my horses had been handled roughly before I got him and it took me half a year of daily work to get him to the point of cooperation. But just like you demonstrate it, it certainly is worth the effort to have a trusting and cooperative animal instead of one that one would have to struggle with every time.
Yessir that’s right. I use stocks just because they’re easier for me. But I want the animals to be well enough trained to do it either way I choose. And yessir a willing animal is what a feller wants! Thanks for watching as always. I appreciate you
Having started many quarter horse colts to shoeing
i Cannot disagree with anything you said, if a mule,
or horse tries to kick and misses you consider it a warning, LOL :)
Yesssss! For sure…mules have really good aim. Mainly because they have really good peripheral vision. They can see just about all the way around behind themselves except about 4” in the middle of their backs. So they hit where they aim usually. Thanks again, for taking time to watch and comment! I surely appreciate it! Good to hear from you.
My parents rules were clean hooves before and after using to get them used to having their feet worked on also taught us good horsemanship
Right! That really helps and thank you Ms Thomas for always watching and commenting
It helps she has trust in you and your gentle you don’t force the issue
Yes ma’am that’s true. We’ve been working quiet a while. I bought her as a weanling and now she’s a yearling. It has taken me about that long to get to this point.